Thinkpads Forum

Hi there!

I hope you can help me
I got a R51 and want to experiment a little bit with Knoppix. I now have the problem that i can't turn on my WLAN-device, which is in Windows done with the Fn+F5 combination.

When I hit Fn+F5 outside of Windows, the Bluetooth-adapter is turned on, but I can't find a way to turn on my WLAN-device:?:

You are asking for a very unusual thing to happen. Check this out:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/102/wl ... ronet.html
It is probably possible, but if in DOS, your NTFS isn't recognized, so your windows file system will not be accessable, unless of course, you run your Windows with FAT/FAT32. You follow me?

Thanks, i see
If it works with Dos-drivers it won't work for me, because I want to have my WLAN-device activated in Knoppix/Linux. It's strange, isn't anyone using Linux with the ThinkPads?

I know a colleague does and he successfully mastered this problem. As soon as he is back I'll ask him.

I also have an external Netgear WLAN-device, but i didn't get it with that one either. Strange, so I better stay with Windows. But thanks anyway

Do a search for WiFi on Google...and then within that search, search further with "linux." You'll find plenty of stuff. For instance, I just did that and my first find was this:
http://www.xanadb.com/archive/linux/200308061818